A film about gangs set in the tough Brussels suburb where a jihadi cell planned the Paris terror attacks, has been pulled from French cinemas.
The distributors of "Black", shot in the Molenbeek area of the Belgian capital made notorious by the November 13 gunmen, told AFP Friday they were forced into the decision because so many cinemas were refusing to show it.

Lady Gaga powered down the runway for design legend Marc Jacobs in a triumphant finale to New York Fashion Week Thursday, showcasing a Gothic fantasy of oversized coats, full skirts and teetering platforms.
Jacobs, the darling of the U.S. fashion scene, prides himself on closing out the biannual Big Apple fashion bonanza by putting on extravagant spectaculars -- and his fall/winter collection was no exception.

Rihanna on Thursday delayed the start of a world tour days after the R&B star missed the Grammys, citing an illness that affected her voice.
The first scheduled show on Rihanna's "Anti" tour is now March 12 in Jacksonville, Florida, according to her website and notices from venues.

Pop superstar Adele said she cried for a day after her botched performance at the Grammys but acknowledged she often had trouble with pitch.
Adele, who has shattered sales records with her latest album, veered out of tune during her performance at the music industry's leading award ceremony Monday after a microphone fell on the strings of the piano that accompanied her.

Clad in virtual reality headgear and computerized vests, intrepid explorers at the annual TED event headed Wednesday into a temple adventure reminiscent of a scene from "Indiana Jones" -- and billed as a major entertainment breakthrough.
Attendees at the conference in Vancouver were among the first to sample a pulse-raising new breed of immersive virtual reality, pioneered by a startup from Utah called The Void.

Michael Kors offered up a flirty collection full of feathers, metallic accents and sharp tailoring Wednesday as Jason Wu unveiled a Hugo Boss collection emphasizing the curvaceous, feminine form.
The billionaire Kors, a household name in the United States due to his accessories beloved by many American women, kicked off the second to last day of New York Fashion Week in a light-filled Tribeca loft.

Germany's first feature-length biopic of Anne Frank premiered this week in Berlin, with the film about persecution against the teenage Jewish diarist carrying added meaning as Europe grapples with its biggest post-war refugee crisis.
"Persecution, expulsion, displacement and destruction are issues that we just can't shake off," said Fred Breinersdorfer, who wrote the script for "Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank" (The Diary of Anne Frank).

Former Olympic icon turned transgender heroine Caitlyn Jenner has triggered debate about whether there could be a "third gender", American portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz said Wednesday.
The former decathlon gold medallist is featured alongside the likes of pop diva Adele, Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in a new exhibition by Leibovitz currently on show in Tokyo.

Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes claimed that if everyone had guns the Bataclan massacre may not have happened, as he returned to Paris Tuesday to play in front of hundreds of survivors of November's terror attacks.
The U.S. band were playing at the Bataclan concert hall in the French capital on the fateful night in November when 90 fans were killed in a jihadist attack.

One of France's most high-profile directors, Rachid Bouchareb, has turned his camera on the appeal of jihad to a generation of young Europeans, in a picture screening at this week's Berlin film festival.
"The Road to Istanbul" tells the story of Elisabeth, a mother in Belgium whose 20-year-old daughter Elodie runs away from home to join fighters from the Islamic State group in Syria.
